[BC] Question on Call Letters

[Mark Humphrey]

There's an LPFM with the callsign WOMB not far from here.  Not "in
Utero" -- but in Gap, Pennsylvania.

What's even better is that they were just re-assigned those calls for
the third time since 2003, when the station began operation.  Here's
the history:

It started as WOMB in October 2003, then changed to:

WGCP

WOMB (again, for 5 months)

WLDW (after 96.5 in Philadelphia dropped the calls)

WOBS   ("Zero B.S"?)

WGPQ (for two weeks)

WLBX (for only one week)

WOBS (again, for four months)

WLRI (wow, they kept that for eight months)

WLIZ (for six weeks)

WTPP (for only two weeks - must have tested poorly in the focus group)

WOMB (again, as of 7/1/06)

All with the -LP suffix, of course.

I've got the perfect thing: a big marquee for the front of their
building with the last three letters painted on drums, so they can
just spin them around each month and avoid calling the sign guy.

Mark


On 8/7/06, Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com> wrote:
> WSEX was the big rabble-rouser here in the 80's. It was on the air for a
> few years until it was sold to Big City. There is KLIT in LA and KWOD
> (Kay-wad) in Sacramento.  And I seem to recall a KCUF somewhere years ago.